A video of the talk I gave at the Army Heritage Education Center in mid-March is now available online:Perspectives: March 18, 2009 “Why the Civil Rights Movement was an Insurgency, and Why it Matters” Mark S. Grimsley, Ph.D. Harold K. Johnson Visiting Professor of Military History, U.S. Army War College Most Americans fail to appreciate that the Civil Rights movement was about the overthrow of an entrenched political order in each of the Southern states, that the segregationists who controlled this order did not hesitate to employ violence (law enforcement, paramilitary, mob) to preserve it, and that for nearly a...